Trump lays out justice preferences in call with McConnell
Source: WaPo
Trump spoke privately with McConnell on Friday night following the news of Ginsburgs death, laying out his preferences for who should replace the liberal justice, according to several people familiar with the conversation.
In the phone call, Trump said he liked Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and Barbara Lagoa of the 11th Circuit, according to two people briefed on the discussion. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose details of a private conversation.
McConnell did not offer names for a potential Ginsburg successor, though Judge Amul Thapar of the 6th Circuit has long been considered a favorite of the majority leader. He promised Trump that his nominee would get a floor vote.
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dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Just watch
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)No way he ever heard of either of them.
progressive nobody
(816 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)She is like Scott Atlas, a person who leverages a prestigious degree to legitimize a nakedly partisan agenda where she ignores precedent to twist the Constitution into knots. At one time, conservatives were against judicial activism, but with Barrett, you have someone who is going to have no qualms about invalidating laws that she disagrees with from a policy perspective.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-might-succeed-justice-ginsburg-trumps-short-list-begins-with-these-five-women-and-one-man/ar-BB19c0eP?li=BBnb7Kz
She also wrote that the publics response to controversial cases like Roe v. Wade reflects public rejection of the idea that legal precedent can declare a permanent victor in a divisive constitutional struggle.
A former member of the University of Notre Dames Faculty for Life, Barrett signed a 2015 letter to Catholic bishops that affirmed the teachings of the Church as truth. Among those teachings: the value of human life from conception to natural death and marriage-family values founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman.
Barrett wrote in 2017 that Chief Justice John Roberts pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning in order to save it. Roberts creatively interpreted as a tax the laws penalty on those who dont buy insurance, allowing the court to uphold the constitutionality of the law, she said.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)She will do a great deal of damage if confirmed.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)I expect better. Bah!
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Wuddles440
(1,123 posts)fundie, cons always have those crazy, pyscho eyes?
MarcA
(2,195 posts)calclar
(55 posts)It's the "Born Again" phenomenon.
Ever try to try to talk with an Evangelical?
They're psyche is at a feverous pitch.
Same with Trumpster Cultists.
They talk over you with a fervor and bulldoze conversations with a vengeance.
It's as if they just discovered Jesus 10 minutes ago.
You can SEE it in their EYES just like you can HEAR it in the delivery of their SPEECH.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)but it was the first thing I noticed in the photo too.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)That means as soon as we secure a simply majority we change SCOTUS to 13 and enlarge all the other federal courts by 2 and ram through extremely young progressive liberal judges to all the new slots.
After that we go after the deep Republican welfare red states and gut them like a fish on the amount of federal money that they siphon off every year.
That means we shutter military bases in them as well as cut them off from any other extra federal money for projects in their states.
AZ8theist
(5,459 posts)Also, REPEAL and REPLACE the Trump tax scam.
Jack up the taxes on the 1% to 75%. The good old days under Eisenhower.
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts).... on my list. THEN....... in no particular order.
Investigation of ALL the Grifters. Including clawing back the millions if not billion stolen from the taxpayers. Jail time for one and all.
Fix the ACA to make it work for all Americans.
Invest in education nationwide. Take AWAY tax dollars for private schools.
Investigate churches to determine if they can keep their tax free status. No more use of tax dollars to manipulate elections.
Repair and replace our infrastructure.
Stop gerrymandering and voter suppression. In EVERY STATE.
Implement sensible gun laws. To stop the mass murders in our schools.
Kill the Trump tax giveaway.
Address climate change and environmental pollution.
Establish fair drug pricing. Allow Medicare to NEGOTIATE drug prices. Like the Veterans Administration. And Canada.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 20, 2020, 05:18 AM - Edit history (1)
What could possibly go wrong with punishing Americans for their political views? That wont lead to any resentment or any other negative side effects.
While were forcing them into poverty, maybe we should just round them all up and make them march to someplace where they can be among themselves. They're all poor, and theyre all married to their cousins anyway, theyd probably like it. They can till all the fields, maybe raise some chickens. Shit, we probably wouldnt even have to pay them, just make them do it. They fucking deserve it anyway.
All those fucking hillbillies with guns wouldnt possibly do anything to any of us. The police that we are defunding will surely protect our politicians and our communities. I wonder who we can find to sponsor this first bill in Congress?
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)will be someone who can help him, not the rePUKES, not his base just him. "who is best for ME?" That will be how he makes the decision of who to put forward. I suspect he will have a few red herrings who are judges now in courts that he will need to side with him if he is not re elected. So, I expect NY State, CA., NJ, judges to be nominated. Giving them an ego jolt even if they have no chance to be confirmed but "owning" something to tRUMP if he ever appears before them.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)to enforce any decisions of the USSC.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Congress (the legislature) has no power over the judicial. It can pass new legislation to circumvent bad decisions, but a corrupt SCOTUS can always harm that.
andym
(5,443 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)He'll be given a list, and instructed to submit a wingnut, partisan hack therefrom.
Afterwards, he'll be handed a bucket of extra crispy chicken and a diet coke, told to eat up, and then instructed to get his fat ass back on the road at taxpayer expense to yet another one of his super spreader brownshirt festivals.
AZ8theist
(5,459 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)"in call with McConnell"
Was that before or after Donald's call with Puting?
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)RBGForever
(30 posts)It's sickening how they're acting right now.